Howard Mutchler (Pennsylvania Congressman)

Howard Mutchler (February 12, 1859 – January 4, 1916) was a Democratic member of the

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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. Howard Mutchler (son of

William Mutchler William Mutchler (December 21, 1831 – June 23, 1893) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Biography William Mutchler (father of Howard Mutchler) was born in Palmer Township, Pennsylvania. He attended ...

), was born in

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. He attended the public schools of Easton and

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. He studied law with his father, but before qualifying for admission to the bar he decided on a newspaper career, and became editor and publisher of the Easton ''Daily Express'' and the ''Northampton Democrat''. He was also active in several businesses, including serving as president of the Easton Telephone Company and the United States Long Distance Telephone Company, and a member of the board of directors of the Easton and Nazareth Transit Company. His wife was a native of Easton. She was educated at St. Mary's Hall in

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; they first met in Easton. Mutchler was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father,

. He served from August 7, 1893 to March 3, 1895, and was not a candidate for reelection in 1894. He was elected to the Fifty-seventh Congress in 1900, and served from March 4, 1901 to March 3, 1903. He resumed his newspaper activities, and died in Easton in 1916. He was interred in

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